Get Back to the Chickens and Pigs
― On Thursday Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is scheduled to be sworn in for yet another presidential term, unless Jesus Christ, “the greatest socialist in history”, decides that it is time for him to join the people’s commune in the sky. ∙ Hugh the Horrible is not even in Caracas as I write. He is in Havana, dying of cancer. There he is surrounded, a bit like a medieval monarch, by his court and his kin, all worried about the future, the future of the ‘revolution.’ That is to say, they are [...].









